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Established in
March 2001

A BSE Accredited Department

Member The NHS Confederation


Internal QA

Echotech has a robust internal QA procedure.

Quality assurance / peer review is conducted on a weekly basis, as described below.

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CP - cardiac physiologist; COM - clinical operations manager; CL - clinical lead

Approximately one third of ALL studies are reviewed for audit purposes and graded into one of five categories, as below:

Category 5: No disagreement

Category 4: Disagreement over style and / or presentation of the report

Category 3: Failure to describe clinically insignificant echo feature

Category 2: Definite omission of significant echo feature but unlikely to result in serious morbidity and mortality

Category 1: Definite omission or misinterpretation of significant echo feature with potential for serious morbidity and mortality

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